Dato’ Tan Heng Chew, JP, DJMK
President, Non-Independent Executive Director
Dato’ Tan Heng Chew, aged 77, a Malaysian, male, was the first director of the Company when it was incorporated on 26 March 1997. He was appointed as the Chairman of the Board on 1 November 1999 and was re-designated as Executive Chairman on 1 January 2011. His corporate title was changed to President on 1 January 2015.
Dato’ Tan graduated from the University of New South Wales, Australia with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree and a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He joined the Tan Chong Motor Holdings Berhad Group of Companies in 1970 and was instrumental in the establishment of its Autoparts Division in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Dato’ Tan is also the President of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Berhad and APM Automotive Holdings Berhad.
He is also a major shareholder of the Company. He is the brother of Mr Tan Eng Soon and is also a director and shareholder of Tan Chong Consolidated Sdn Bhd. Mr. Tan Eng Soon and Tan Chong Consolidated Sdn Bhd are major shareholders of the Company. Dato’ Tan has abstained from deliberation and voting in respect of transactions between the Group and related parties involving himself.
Dato’ Tan attended all the seven (7) Board Meetings held in 2023.
Tan Keng Meng
Chief Executive Officer, Non-Independent Executive Director
Mr. Tan Keng Meng, aged 65, a Malaysian, male, was appointed to the Board as Executive Director on 11 January 2012. His corporate title was changed to Executive Vice President on 1 January 2015. Mr. Tan was subsequently re-designated as Chief Executive Officer on 1 October 2015.
Mr. Tan graduated from the University of Malaya with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1982. Mr. Tan joined TCIM Sdn Bhd (TCIM), a wholly-ownedsubsidiary of the Company on 15 April 2010 and was subsequently appointed as Executive Director of TCIM taking charge of industrial machinery business. He also heads the Automotive Division of the Group since October 2015.
Mr. Tan also sits on the Boards of several subsidiaries of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Berhad, such as Edaran Tan Chong Motor Sdn Bhd, Tan Chong Motor Assemblies Sdn Bhd, Tan Chong & Sons Motor Company Sdn Bhd and Tan Chong Industrial Equipment Sdn Bhd. He has held senior management positions for many years with extensive Malaysian and international experience
Prior to joining the Group, he was the Group Chief Executive Officer/Director of Tasek Corporation Berhad, a public company listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. He was previously Managing Director-Asia with Friction Material Pacific Group, a joint-venture company between Honeywell and Pacifica of Australia. Mr. Tan has extensive experience in a number of industries covering construction, automotive and automotive component manufacturing.
He has abstained from deliberation and voting in respect of transactions between the Group and related parties involving himself.
Mr. Tan attended all the seven (7) Board Meetings held in 2023.
Chin Yen Song
Non-Independent Executive Director
Ms. Chin Yen Song, aged 50, a Malaysian, female, was appointed to the Board on 25 November 2021 as an Executive Director. She joined the WTCH Group as Finance Manager in 2003 and was promoted to Deputy General Manager and General Manager in January 2011 and July 2015 respectively. In 2010, she was tasked to oversee the corporate travel business of Mayflower Corporate Travel Services Sdn Bhd assuming responsibilities of business development and retention, and to drive customer service excellence. Currently Ms. Chin is the Chief Executive Officer of Mayflower Group, taking charge of the entire travel and car rental business operation (locally and overseas).
Ms. Chin is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow Member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.
Prior to joining WTCH Group, Ms. Chin worked in Singapore for more than 11 years in telecom and manufacturing companies as Accountant.
Ms. Chin attended all the seven (7) Board Meetings held in 2023.
Lee Min On
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr. Lee Min On, aged 64, a Malaysian, male, was appointed to the Board on 29 November 2016 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. He is a member of the Audit Committee and Nominating and Remuneration Committee.
Mr. Lee is a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), a Certified Public Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a Chartered Fellow Member of The Institute of Internal Auditors, Malaysia.
He started his career with KPMG Malaysia in 1979 and retired as a Partner of the Firm on 31 December 2015. During his tenure with KPMG, he served in the External Audit Division before moving to helm the Firm’s risk consulting practice, providing, inter-alia, board advisory services that encompassed corporate governance assessment, enterprise risk management and risk-based internal audit for both public listed as well as private corporations.
Mr. Lee co-wrote the “Corporate Governance Guide: Towards Boardroom Excellence” 1st and 2nd Editions which were published by Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. He also sat on the Task Force which was responsible for developing the “Statement on Risk Management and Internal Control – Guidelines for Directors of Listed Issuers”, a document issued by Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad in 2012. As a strong advocate of good governance and integrity in the marketplace, Mr. Lee speaks regularly at public seminars and conferences, including in-house sessions, sharing his thoughts and insights, particularly on Sustainability, Governance, Risk and Compliance.
Mr. Lee also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Berhad, APM Automotive Holdings Berhad, Kotra Industries Berhad and Lii Hen Industries Bhd. He is also a member of Audit and Risk Management Committee of MIA.
He has abstained from deliberation and voting in respect of transactions between the Group and related parties involving himself.
Mr. Lee attended six (6) out of seven (7) Board Meetings held in 2023.
Soh Eng Hooi
Independent Non-Executive Director
Ms. Soh Eng Hooi, aged 54, a Malaysian, female, was appointed to the Board on 31 December 2020 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. She is the Chairwoman of the Audit Committee and a member of Nominating and Remuneration Committee.
Ms. Soh graduated from University of Malaya with a Bachelor of Accounting (Honours) in 1994. She is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA). She started her career with Arthur Andersen & Co. Kuala Lumpur and was a partner in Baker Tilly Kuala Lumpur, an independent member firm of Baker Tilly International, before she founded E H Soh & Partners, an accounting firm, in 2015.
She is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Integrated Logistics Berhad (ILB) and serves as the Chairwoman of Audit & Risk Management Committee, and a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee of ILB. She is the Chairwoman of Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee, and a member of the Nominating Committee and Risk Management Committee of MN Holdings Berhad.
Ms. Soh attended all the seven (7) Board Meetings in 2023.
Datuk Abdullah bin Abdul Wahab, KMN, DPSJ, PJN
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Datuk Abdullah bin Abdul Wahab, aged 73, a Malaysian, male, was appointed to the Board on 3 March 2008 as an Independent Non-Executive Director and was re-designated as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director on 23 January 2013. He is the Chairman of Nominating and Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.
Datuk Abdullah graduated from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) with a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree in 1976. He was an Administrative Officer at the School of Pharmacy, USM Penang from 1976 to 1980.
He started his career at The Parliament of Malaysia as Assistant Secretary in 1980 and subsequently assumed all aspects of administrative functions at The Parliament. In 1999, he was appointed as Secretary to the Senate, and in 2004, he was elevated as Secretary to The Parliament and Secretary to the Dewan Rakyat. He retired from the civil service in 2006.
Datuk Abdullah attended all the seven (7) Board Meetings in 2023.
Dato’ Yunus Bin Abd Razak, DSDK, P.GeoL
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dato’ Yunus Bin Abd Razak, aged 68, a Malaysian, male, was appointed to the Board on 17 August 2022 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. He is a member of the Audit Committee and Nominating and Remuneration Committee.
Dato’ Yunus graduated from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Geology in 1979. He holds a Master of Science in Engineering Geology from University of London and a Diploma of the Imperial College in Engineering Geology. He has more than 36 years of career experience in the civil service serving in the Department of Geological Survey which later rebranded as the Department of Mineral and Geoscience in 2001 and had retired as the Director General for the said department after 10 years of his excellence service.
Dato’ Yunus is a Professional Registered Geologist (P. GeoL) and a retired civil servant. He was the first Chairman of the Board of Geologist Malaysia and had formerly held positions as President of the Society of Engineering Geology and Rock Mechanics, President of the Institute of Geology Malaysia, President of the Geological Society of Malaysia and Associate Fellow at Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI) in UKM.
At the regional level, Dato’ Yunus was the Permanent Representative of Malaysia to the Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programme in East and Southeast Asia (“CCOP”) and had served as Chairperson for CCOP Steering Committee for three (3) years.
Currently, Dato’ Yunus is Honorary Advisor and Vice Chairman for CCOP, Associate Fellow with Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative (SEADPRI) at UKM. He sits in the Board of several mineral resources related companies.
Dato’ Yunus attended three (3) out of three (3) Board Meetings held in 2022 subsequent to his appointment to the Board on 17 August 2023.
Tan Soon Huat,
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr. Tan Soon Huat, aged 53, a Malaysian, male, was appointed to the Board on 28 August 2024 as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director.
Mr. Tan is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He graduated from University of Bristol, United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Science in Economics in 1992.
Mr. Tan has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services having worked in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Singapore at Credit Suisse Securities, J.P. Morgan and Arab Malaysian Securities. He joined Tan Chong Motor Holdings Berhad Group (“TCMH Group”) in May 2016 as Senior General Manager in the President’s Office managing Investor Relations and Corporate Planning activities. He was assigned with additional role as the Head of Financing Services Department in year 2018 and later promoted to Executive Vice President and Head of Insurance Division in year 2020. His current responsibilities include business operations of the Financial Services and Insurance Divisions, Corporate Planning and Investor Relations. Mr. Tan also assumed the role as Principal Officer of Warisan Captive Incorporated since July 2020 and sits on the Boards of several subsidiaries of TCMH Group and WTCH Group.
Mr. Tan is a cousin of Dato’ Tan Heng Chew, a Director and major shareholder of WTCH. Mr. Tan shall declare and abstain from deliberation and voting in respect of transactions between the WTCH Group and related parties involving himself and/or should there be an actual, potential or perceived conflict of interest between the Company or a related corporation and a Directors, or an associate of a Director such as spouse or other family members.